About Me

I work on large foundation models in the physical world, developing interpretability methods that explain model decisions, guide data curation, and improve training.

I am a year-0 PhD student at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), advised by Jianfei Yang.

I obtained my MPhil at HKU, advised by Yanchao Yang and Ping Luo. During my undergraduate study at HKU, I was advised by Shuming Ma at Microsoft Research Asia, Lequan Yu at HKU, and Junxian He at HKUST. I'm deeply grateful to Byron Wallace and Zhonghua Liu for introducing me to research.

I'm always happy to connect and collaborate 😆. Feel free to reach out via email, Twitter or 小红书.

Publications

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Tri-Info: Generalizable, Interpretable Failure Prediction for VLA Models via Information Theory
Jinghan Yang, Yunchao Zhang, Wang Yuan, Haolun Wang, Jiaming Zhang, Zhengyang Hu, Yanchao Yang
Preprint[ pdf ]
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Auto-ICL: In-Context Learning without Human Supervision
Jinghan Yang, Shuming Ma, Furu Wei
Preprint[ pdf ]
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Relabeling Minimal Training Subset to Flip a Prediction
Jinghan Yang, Linjie Xu, Lequan Yu
EACL 2024 · Findings[ pdf ]
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ERStruct: a fast Python package for inferring the number of top principal components from whole genome sequencing data
Jinghan Yang*, Yuyang Xu*, Minhao Yao, Gao Wang, Zhonghua Liu
BMC Bioinformatics 2023[ pdf ]
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How Many and Which Training Points Would Need to be Removed to Flip this Prediction?
Jinghan Yang, Sarthak Jain, Byron C. Wallace
EACL 2023[ pdf ]

Experience & Education

Internships

Research Intern · Microsoft Research Asia Feb – Aug 2023
Mentor: Shuming Ma
Algorithm Engineer Intern · MINIVISION Jun – Aug 2021
Quantitative Research Intern · Ipsos Consulting Jun – Aug 2020

Visiting

Research Assistant · HKUST Sep 2023 – Jan 2024
Advisor: Junxian He
Overseas Research Program · Northeastern University Aug – Nov 2022
Advisor: Byron Wallace
Summer Research Assistant · The University of Hong Kong May – Aug 2022
Advisor: Zhonghua Liu

Education

PhD · Nanyang Technological University Aug 2026 – Now
Advisor: Jianfei Yang
MPhil, Institute of Data Science · HKU Sep 2024 – Aug 2026
Advisors: Yanchao Yang and Ping Luo
BSc, Decision Analytics · HKU Sep 2020 – Jul 2024
Advisor: Lequan Yu
Exchange Student · Northeastern University Jan – May 2022
Summer School · Peking University Jun – Jul 2021
BBA, Accounting & Finance · HKU Sep 2019 – Jul 2020

Beyond Research

Beyond letting robots interact with the physical world, I love pushing my own body to its limits in the PHYSICAL WORLD too. 💪

Sports Basketball Roller skating Sports Sports Sports Sports Sports Sports Sports Sports Sports Sports Sports
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